Artist Quotes · Page 431

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

— Damien Hirst

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

— Alice Neel

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

— Gertrude Kasebier

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

— Rebecca Miller

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

— Oscar Wilde

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

— John Dewey

I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.

— Lucinda Williams

I've always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist.

— Michelle Zauner

The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not…

— Al Alvarez

I want to make meaningful music always - I think every artist does. We want our words and melodies to mean something…

— Darren Fletcher

Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the…

— William Morris Hunt

Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such…

— John Perry Barlow

“While painting The Last Supper, Leonardo would sometimes stare at the work for an hour, finally make one small stroke, and then…

— Walter Isaacson

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at…

— Edvard Munch

The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a…

— Che Guevara

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of…

— Itay Talgam

Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but…

— Agnes Varda

If someone has given a hit in the industry, and everyone talks about the song and artist, that's a hit.

— Guru Randhawa

“Throw our your mean words, Mr. Freemantle. Art should be a place of hope, not doubt.”

— Stephen King

“Art transforms those that witness the creation, into philosophers, enquirers led down a path of mind; of quiet contemplation.”

— Erik S. Lehman

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

— Yayoi Kusama

Californian artists are kind of willing to push the limits a little bit further just because that's kind of our mentality in…

— Brett Young

“A great work of art, if it accomplishes anything, serves to remind us, or let us say to set us dreaming, of…

— Henry Miller

If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.

— Lykke Li

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

— Alexander Pope

My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.

— Anohni

I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

When I lived in New York, I was still ascribing to this idea of being a somewhat tortured artist. I thought that…

— Greta Lee

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

— Anonymous

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

— Erykah Badu

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

— Oscar Wilde

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

— Roy Lichtenstein

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I literally have my hand in every aspect of the art world that you could imagine. That's what I've always done.

— Princess Nokia

Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

— Sherwood Anderson

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

— Leo Tolstoy

To put my name on a track as a solo artist was a big deal to me. There was no band to…

— Nita Strauss

An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.

— Seth

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

— Adam Gopnik

I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.

— Janet Scudder